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PILOT STORIES: Doty, Lyman W.

Telegram regarding Doty's airmail crash on December 28, 1918. The telegram, sent to Second Assistant Postmaster General Otto Praeger, relates that the crash is being investigated, Doty was hospitalized and the mail forwarded to its destination by train.

- Courtesy of the National Archives & Records Administration

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